Quotes about Imperfect

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. Votes: 5

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting. Votes: 4

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. Votes: 4

Imperfect people are all god has ever had to work with. That must be terribly frustrating to him, but he deals with it. So should we. Votes: 4

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. Votes: 4

No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful. Votes: 4

Imperfectios equal beauty. We are all imperfect. Votes: 3

Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction. Votes: 3

Imperfect action beats perfect inaction every time. Votes: 3

Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance. Votes: 3

Some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. Votes: 3

Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men. Votes: 3

Imperfect parenting does not cause addiction. If that were so, everyone would be one. Votes: 3

Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property. Votes: 3

So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. Votes: 3

Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet Votes: 3

The Imperfect Pastor by Zack Eswine might be the most helpful and profound book I've read in years. If you're in pastoral ministry grab a copy. Votes: 3

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments. Votes: 3

It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is. Votes: 3

Wounds. Broken places.Possibility.Change.Steps toward holiness.Imperfect progress.The hurt in those who hurt me---their underbellies.Grace.Love.Me looking alot more like Jesus than I did before.And to discover through all this seeing---being unglued isn't all that bad. Votes: 3

There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world was real. Illusion was no substitute. I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies. Votes: 3

It's not that I believe everything happens for a reason. It's just that... I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is." Votes: 3

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. Votes: 2

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful. Votes: 2

Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. Votes: 2

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man. Votes: 2

Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place. Votes: 2

The Church is designed to nourish the imperfect, the struggling, and the exhausted. Votes: 2

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day. Votes: 2

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others. Votes: 2

You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging. Votes: 2

I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect. Votes: 2

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion. Votes: 2

We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us-that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect. Votes: 2

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Votes: 2

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Votes: 2

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut. Votes: 2

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong. Votes: 2

I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life. Votes: 2

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice. Votes: 2

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. Votes: 2

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. Votes: 2

I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect. Votes: 2

To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection. Votes: 2

I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past Votes: 2

The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come. Votes: 2

I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't. Votes: 2

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect. Votes: 2

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing. Votes: 2

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. Votes: 2

Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried. Votes: 2

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success. Votes: 2

Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less than the whole and, therefore, imperfect by itself, it shows imperfection as evil, and only the totality of a universe can mirror the image of God. Votes: 2

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try. Votes: 2

In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality. Votes: 2

Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore soured and disappointed beings. This is probably not true of any suffragist, and it is most certainly not true of me. My home life and relations have been as nearly ideal as possible in this imperfect world. Votes: 2

The thing that you think is imperfect about you is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else. I have a scar on my lip, and for years I hated it. But now its become my thing. It's like, without it, I'm not me. You can't be perfect, so enjoy your imperfections. I can't stress that enough. Votes: 2

Why, when we know that there's no such thing as perfect, do most of us spend an incredible amount of time and energy trying to be everything to everyone? Is it that we really admire perfection? No - the truth is that we are actually drawn to people who are real and down-to-earth. We love authenticity and we know that life is messy and imperfect. Votes: 2

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment. Votes: 1

You are perfectly imperfect. Votes: 0

Dreams fulfilled are imperfect. Votes: 0

The imperfect is our paradise. Votes: 0

Compromise is an imperfect act. Votes: 0

I'm vain because I'm imperfect. Votes: 0

How imperfect is all our knowledge! Votes: 0

You can root for someone who's imperfect. Votes: 0

All general judgments are loose and imperfect Votes: 0

Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect. Votes: 0

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are. Votes: 0

Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life. Votes: 0

We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government. Votes: 0

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature. Votes: 0

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition. Votes: 0

It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us. Votes: 0

But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends. Votes: 0

Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing. Votes: 0

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing Votes: 0

Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world. Votes: 0

There is always a but in this imperfect world. Votes: 0

I'm an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect. Votes: 0

Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human. Votes: 0

I am one imperfect man saved by God's grace, Votes: 0

Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person. Votes: 0

Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends. Votes: 0

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government. Votes: 0

We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves. Votes: 0

We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect. Votes: 0

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. Votes: 0

God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master. Votes: 0

I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect. Votes: 0

Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science. Votes: 0

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world. Votes: 0

Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan. Votes: 0

People are imperfect, but that doesn't mean they spoil like milk. Votes: 0

Your eyes, ears and mind are imperfect in front of magic. Votes: 0

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect. Votes: 0

Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep. Votes: 0

Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect. Votes: 0

Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements. Votes: 0

Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents. Votes: 0

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man. Votes: 0

Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people. Votes: 0

All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world. Votes: 0

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. Votes: 0

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect. Votes: 0

Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird. Votes: 0

Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections. Votes: 0

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought. Votes: 0

We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries. Votes: 0

There are only people doing their imperfect best at doing their imperfect jobs Votes: 0

Is it truly so unfathomable, that an imperfect girl might be perfectly loved? Votes: 0

All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life. Votes: 0

It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love. Votes: 0

If God had not made Sherry, how imperfect his work would have been. Votes: 0

I found out along the way that they like you a little imperfect. Votes: 0

The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. Votes: 0

I try to be perfect but I'm not. I'm perfectly imperfect in every way. Votes: 0

There's imperfect food out there that just needs a mouth to bite into it. Votes: 0

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will. Votes: 0

Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are! Votes: 0

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own. Votes: 0

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others. Votes: 0

As we try to achieve perfection, society changes and we just become more imperfect Votes: 0

Your goal is to launch an imperfect product and let people laugh at you. Votes: 0

...you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. Votes: 0

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them. Votes: 0

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew. Votes: 0

Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person. Votes: 0

Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense. Votes: 0

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true. Votes: 0

The enso contains the perfect and imperfect; that is why it is always complete. Votes: 0

To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections. Votes: 0

If we accept imperfect food, we can indeed change the world for the better. Votes: 0

We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections. Votes: 0

When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge. Votes: 0

Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human. Votes: 0

We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond Votes: 0

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. Votes: 0

The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken. Votes: 0

All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious. Votes: 0

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error. Votes: 0

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world. Votes: 0

The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else. Votes: 0

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it. Votes: 0

Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate. Votes: 0

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage. Votes: 0

...an imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan. Votes: 0

However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune. Votes: 0

I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education. Votes: 0

[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it. Votes: 0

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. Votes: 0

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation. Votes: 0

Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition. Votes: 0

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation. Votes: 0

Stop trying to 'fix' yourself; you're NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure. Votes: 0

We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us--that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect. Votes: 0

Praxiteles borrowed the better elements of a hundred imperfect models in order to create a masterpiece. Votes: 0

There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience. Votes: 0

Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death. Votes: 0

We learn to love imperfect people by serving them out of reverence for a perfect God Votes: 0

I'm far from perfect, but I'll be perfect for that imperfect person that's perfect for me. Votes: 0

I always find beauty in things that are odd & imperfect - they are much more interesting. Votes: 0

You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging. Votes: 0

You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging. Votes: 0

I may be imperfect today, but every day I strive to become just a little better. Votes: 0

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect. Votes: 0

Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect. Votes: 0

Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect. Votes: 0

A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other. Votes: 0

I tend to really like things that are broken, I like the ones that are perfectly imperfect. Votes: 0

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect. Votes: 0

How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy. Votes: 0

Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, bur appropriate actions in an imperfect one. Votes: 0

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life. Votes: 0

The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend. Votes: 0

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end. Votes: 0

Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect. Votes: 0

I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is. Votes: 0

He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect. Votes: 0

My hand will always be imperfect because it's human"¦ I think that's where the beauty is. Votes: 0

Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business. Votes: 0

Life is messy and gloriously imperfect, and some signs of wear and tear indicate a well-loved, well-used home. Votes: 0

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient ... Votes: 0

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand. Votes: 0

Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success. Votes: 0

The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be. Votes: 0

I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life. Votes: 0

Don't be afraid to be who you are, we were created to perfect in our own imperfect way. Votes: 0

Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this." Votes: 0

It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born. Votes: 0

Perfection is death,' Anastasia said. 'The world is imperfect, but if it weren't, who would love it? Votes: 0

My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance. Votes: 0

Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides. Votes: 0

To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men. Votes: 0

[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice. Votes: 0

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been. Votes: 0

The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge. Votes: 0

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted. Votes: 0

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited. Votes: 0

I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow? Votes: 0

...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you. Votes: 0

Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence. Votes: 0

I can promise that even having an imperfect one who loves you is better than having none at all. Votes: 0

I really believe that it is honesty about our imperfect selves that makes everyone do better and be better. Votes: 0

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Votes: 0

A role model is an imperfect person, not a perfect person, because that's who we are as real people. Votes: 0

We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms. Votes: 0

We're broken, imperfect,we were all made the same.We're broken, we're broken, imperfect,we are all to blame. Votes: 0

Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan. Votes: 0

Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust. Votes: 0

as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes! Votes: 0

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute. Votes: 0

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history. Votes: 0

While you're busy looking for the perfect person, you'll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy. Votes: 0

People aren't meant to be perfect. We're all imperfect people looking for perfect moments to share with other imperfect people. Votes: 0

Great accomplishment seems imperfect, Yet it does not outlive its usefulness. Great fullness seems empty, Yet it cannot be exhausted. Votes: 0

It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect. Votes: 0

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off. Votes: 0

Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections. Votes: 0

We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons. Votes: 0

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting. Votes: 0

Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect. Votes: 0

Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden. Votes: 0

No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable. Votes: 0

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge. Votes: 0

Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood Votes: 0

At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming. Votes: 0

The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect. Votes: 0

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words. Votes: 0

Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law. Votes: 0

Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law. Votes: 0

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Votes: 0

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but caring little for it, and even less for my imperfect garden Votes: 0

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. Votes: 0

Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God. Votes: 0

Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin. Votes: 0

The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy. Votes: 0

... Love never forgets; or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning. Votes: 0

To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human. Votes: 0

God hears no sweeter music than the cracked chimes of the courageous human spirit ringing in imperfect acknowledgement of His perfect love. Votes: 0

Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody. Votes: 0

A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. Votes: 0

You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not. Votes: 0

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly? Votes: 0

I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength Votes: 0

I believe that we can access stories, and voices from those around us, more easily often than from our own imperfect memories. Votes: 0

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them. Votes: 0

Why are all Christians happy and praising Jesus? It's because we are not DEAD! We may be imperfect, but we aren't DEAD! Votes: 0

To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human. Votes: 0

When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images. Votes: 0

A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike. Votes: 0

Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg. Votes: 0

Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious? Votes: 0

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect. Votes: 0

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity Votes: 0

Our opponent [ Representative John Lewis] is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country. Votes: 0

I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature. Votes: 0

Partial examination will result in partial views of truth, which are necessarily imperfect; only careful comparisons will show the complete mind of God. Votes: 0

I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better. Votes: 0

I could never be a complete scholar or a complete housewife ora completewriter: Imustcombinea little of all, and thereby be imperfect in all. Votes: 0

I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that's natural and that's real. Votes: 0

To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect. Votes: 0

Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous. Votes: 0

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. Votes: 0

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. Votes: 0

The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable. Votes: 0

What is love really, but two imperfect people staring at their reflection and loving what they see...because someone chose to stand beside them. Votes: 0

The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence. Votes: 0

In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection! Votes: 0

Every attempt we make is imperfect; yet each one of those imperfect attempts is an occasion for a delight unlike anything else on earth. Votes: 0

An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it. Votes: 0

[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect. Votes: 0

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another. Votes: 0

After all, I wasn't a bad person. I was just doing my best in what had turned out to be a fairly imperfect life. Votes: 0

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection. Votes: 0

The thing that you think is imperfect about you, is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else. Votes: 0

If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you. Votes: 0

It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect. Votes: 0

There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection. Votes: 0

Truth needs wisdom's guidance. Wisdom prevents a hard truth from getting the best of you when an imperfect character brings out the worst in you. Votes: 0

Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God. Votes: 0

Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do. Votes: 0

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect. Votes: 0

No man can become perfect until he knows his true nature. And the person who knows his or her true nature cannot be an imperfect. Votes: 0

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. Votes: 0

Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing nothing at all. Votes: 0

I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love. Votes: 0

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect. Votes: 0

I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Votes: 0

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with. Votes: 0

It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind. Votes: 0

genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions. Votes: 0

... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false. Votes: 0

Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection. Votes: 0

Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in us. Votes: 0

Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late. Votes: 0

Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future. Votes: 0

Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging. Votes: 0

The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds. Votes: 0

But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned? Votes: 0

The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life. Votes: 0

[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa. Votes: 0

Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal... Votes: 0

All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless. Votes: 0

A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government. Votes: 0

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it. Votes: 0

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it. Votes: 0

The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way. Votes: 0

Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person. To love somebody isn`t just a strong feeling. It is a decision, a judgment, and a promise. Votes: 0

I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once. Votes: 0

The unmet need that can get met right now is the need to be whole, to be both your magnificent, divine self and your imperfect, human self. Votes: 0

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all. Votes: 0

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature's imperfect but tenacious survivors. Votes: 0

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance. Votes: 0

Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift. Votes: 0

I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circumscribed. Votes: 0

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance. Votes: 0

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance. Votes: 0

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful. Votes: 0

I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire. Votes: 0

Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic. Votes: 0

I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities. Votes: 0

It's made me realize that imperfect is perfectly comfortable to me. Whether it's a city or my apartment, I feel most at home when things are somewhat flawed. Votes: 0

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue. Votes: 0

For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals. Votes: 0

I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people. Votes: 0

In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline. Votes: 0

Usually I think if there is something imperfect in a photograph it makes the picture more real. Photographs that are slick, smooth, and imperfect seem less honest to me. Votes: 0

Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love! Votes: 0

Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind. Votes: 0

Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity. Votes: 0

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what I'm hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want. Votes: 0

How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel? Votes: 0

I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect. Votes: 0

We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive. Votes: 0

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want. Votes: 0

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most. Votes: 0

Your best changes from moment to moment, sick or well, tired or rested. Remember that you are an imperfect human being. There is no value to judging yourself for Votes: 0

...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death. Votes: 0

I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange. Votes: 0

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication. Votes: 0

Sometimes we give too much too soon. Sometimes we hold back for too long. This is our beautiful dance. Our imperfect dance. This is the dance that makes us human. Votes: 0

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins. Votes: 0

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can. Votes: 0

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation. Votes: 0

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can. Votes: 0

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles. Votes: 0

People must not only hear about the kingdom of GOD, but must see it in actual operation, on a small scale perhaps and in imperfect form, but a real demonstration nevertheless. Votes: 0

My hope is that my novels reflect the reality of a world where good and evil exist, imperfect people make mistakes, but a perfect Heavenly Father offers forgiveness and second chances. Votes: 0

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body. Votes: 0

We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong. Votes: 0

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect. Votes: 0

Everything you see is filtered through your visual system (imperfect) and your brain (also imperfect, despite what your mom told you). Witness testimony is the worst kind of evidence in science. Votes: 0

What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned. Votes: 0

I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully. Votes: 0

You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it. Votes: 0

We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery. Votes: 0

The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world? Votes: 0

We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection. Votes: 0

As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent. Votes: 0

He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being. Votes: 0

The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template. Votes: 0

My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved. Votes: 0

the more one advances, the more one sees the goal is still far off. And now I am simply resigned to see myself always imperfect and in this I find my joy. Votes: 0

I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it. Votes: 0

When I made the decision - when my team-mates made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision - it was a bad decision and an imperfect time. But it happened. Votes: 0

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture. Votes: 0

I think it is an imperfect arms control agreement. It's not a friendship treaty. But when America gives her word, we have to live up to it and work with our allies. Votes: 0

A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it. Votes: 0

Let us not give up. Let us be true to our covenants. Let us never lose sight of our Advocate and Redeemer as we walk toward Him, one imperfect step after another. Votes: 0

It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one's faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God's church. Votes: 0

We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone? Votes: 0

If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect. Votes: 0

I've just grown as a person, accepting my flaws as well. Before I was very insecure and I used to just hide, and now I just accept that I'm an imperfect human. Votes: 0

Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top. Votes: 0

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship. Votes: 0

David Arnold's writing is both heartfelt and hilarious. You will fall in love with Mim, even as her grand journey will keep you guessing. Mosquitoland reminds us that sometimes imperfect is just perfect. Votes: 0

I fail all the time, but we are all just human and imperfect, but you know what's best for you, so follow your gut. That's probably my biggest life lesson, follow your gut. Votes: 0

Self-realization may be and sometimes is attained even by people who are struggling with sick and otherwise imperfect bodies; but it cannot be attained unless one can concentrate and meditate uninterruptedly upon God. Votes: 0

Men shouldn't try too hard, or think about what they wear too much. I like when there's something about a look that throws it off a little – perfection is really imperfect. Votes: 0

A child in the 4th grade who's just learning algebra is not imperfect. While there may be a child in the 12th grade who's much better, the child who's learning is not imperfect. Votes: 0

Freedom is having real choice. This offers a limited amount of choices. This is participating in a very imperfect system that we're desperately hanging onto, that we don't want to see further eroded. Votes: 0

Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life. Votes: 0

We are imperfect beings in a very imperfect world, and the one thing we can count on is that things will go wrong, and that each and every one of us will have problems. Votes: 0

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground. Votes: 0

If, as consumers, we can change our mindset so that we see gnarled, twisted, lumpy or otherwise imperfect produce as beautiful, we can create demand, change the system and ultimately help feed the world. Votes: 0

I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched. Votes: 0

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones. Votes: 0

In the light of absolute values (religious or ethical) man himself is judged to be limited or imperfect, while he can occasionally accomplish acts which partake of perfection, he, himself can never be perfect. Votes: 0

Because of the active principle and spirit or universal soul, nothing is so incomplete, defective or imperfect, or, according to common opinion, so completely insignificant that it could not become the source of great events. Votes: 0

We have a natural constant craving for leadership. Democracy is always a fragile and imperfect achievement. Yet a distinct feeling of malaise in our political culture lingers. There is something missing from our public debates. Votes: 0

He didn't mind if she hated him. They were never going to be a cute romantic couple like Sam and Astrid. Clean-cut, righteous, all that. The perfect couple. He and Diana were the imperfect couple. Votes: 0

Twelve-step promotes spirituality, not religion. It gives a practical, day-to-day spirituality that tells me what I can and cannot control. There is room to be imperfect and to be someone who struggles to find God. Votes: 0

There's nothing wrong with self-improvement, as long as you recognize that at some point you're going to have to accept yourself in all your imperfect glory. What's wrong with liking yourself the way you are? Votes: 0

I accept that today may be imperfect... I accept that I may be as well. What I don't accept is that imperfection should be the crutch I use to excuse myself from participating in joy. Votes: 0

Scholars note that human reasoning is limited not only by imperfect information and innate intellectual capacities but also by the broader culture that subsequently shapes the very optics that individuals use to categorize the world. Votes: 0